2024 Program

11:30-12:30 p.m.

Lunch and pick up conference materials (West Village H 108-110)

12:30-12:40 p.m.

Opening remarks: Nicole Boyson (Finance Group Chair) & David De Cremer (Dunton Family Dean)

Session 1

Session Chair: Fabricius Somogyi

12:45-1:30 p.m.

“On the Use of Currency Forwards-Evidence from International Equity Mutual Funds”
Authors: Wei Opie (Deakin Univ.); Steven Riddiough (Univ. of Toronto)
Discussant: Andrea Vedolin (Boston University)

1:30-2:15 p.m.

“Steering Labor Mobility through Innovation”
Authors: Song Ma (Yale Univ.); Wenyu Wang (Indiana Univ.); Yufeng Wu (Ohio State Univ.)
Discussant: Rui Albuquerque (Boston College)

2:15-2:40 p.m.

Coffee break

Session 2

Session Chairs: Weiling Liu & Kandarp Srinivasan

2:40-3:25 p.m.

“Does Peer-Reviewed Research Help Predict Stock Returns?”
Authors: Andrew Y. Chen (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System); Alejandro Lopez-Lira (Univ. of Florida); Tom Zimmermann (Univ. of Cologne)
Discussant: Jeff Pontiff (Boston College.)

3:25-4:10 p.m.

“Who Is Minding the Store – Order Routing and Competition in Retail Trade Execution”
Authors: Xing Huang (Washington Univ.); Philippe Jorion, Christopher Schwarz (UC Irvine);
Jeongmin Lee (FRB- Washington DC)
Discussant: Dermot Murphy (Univ. of Illinois – Chicago)

4:10-4:35 p.m.

Coffee break

4:35-5:20 p.m.

“Directing the Labor Market – The Impact of Shared Board Members of Employee Flows”
Authors: Taylor Begley (Univ. of Kentucky); Peter Haslag (Vanderbilt Univ.);
Daniel Weagley (Georgia Inst. of Technology)
Discussant: Hong Ru (MIT)

5:30-8:30 p.m.

Reception: East Village 17th Floor

8:30-9:15 a.m.

Breakfast at Raytheon Amphitheater (240 Egan Hall)

Session 3

Session Chairs: Saptarshi Mukherjee & Ali Sharifkhani

9:15-10:00 a.m.

“The Efficiency of Patent Litigation”
Authors: Samuel Antill (HBS); Murat Alp Celik (Univ. of Toronto); Xu Tian (Univ. of Georgia);
Toni M. Whited (Univ. of Michigan)
Discussant: Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern Univ.)

10:00-10:45 a.m.

“Algorithmic Underwriting in High-Risk Mortgage Markets”
Authors: Janet Gao (Georgetown Univ.); Livia Yi (Boston College); David Zhang (Rice Univ.)
Discussant: Tong Liu (MIT

10:45-11:10 a.m.

Coffee break

11:10-11:55 a.m.

“Hedging Climate Change Risk – A Real-time Market Response Approach”
Authors: Yang Cao, Miao Liu (Boston College); Rachel Xi Zhang (National Univ. of Singapore)
Discussant: Daniel Green (HBS)

11:55-12:00 p.m.

Closing remarks and adjourn for lunch

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Lunch at the Raytheon Amphitheater (240 Egan Hall)